The Giver

[Fonzo]

Hey
Just wondering why did ya'll guys like it?

I liked it cuz it was beutifly crafted to keep you wanting more by setting internal conflicas as well as external. Plus the dialog between characters really made me feel like i was there or make me feel like i knew the person.

anybody elses has a reason?

[Gildragon]

I like how the setting isn't revealed until you get into the story.

I already posted that. did you wante something else?

[soramaru95]

i had to right the 24th chapter for it as an assignment
and i also had to finsh a contrast imovie about it

[Ecstasy]

Originally Posted by Dawning Kensei

This book is/was amazing.

lol, emo? The book was happy, at the end of it.

I could have sworn they died at the end of the book..

[Gildragon]

the main character didn't.

he was on the sled on the snow with the young child/ baby (I don't remmber the age)
and he heard music.

[Ecstasy]

Originally Posted by Gildragon

the main character didn't.

he was on the sled on the snow with the young child/ baby (I don't remmber the age)
and he heard music.

Spark notes:

The ending of The Giver is extremely ambiguous and highly controversial. It can be read in two ways: either Jonas and Gabriel have finally arrived at a populated section of Elsewhere—a place that holds on to the traditions that existed before Sameness, where they will be welcomed and loved—or they are both freezing to death, and in their delusion ecstatically imagine details from some of Jonas’s stored memories.

I think my teacher had taught us that they died, though.

[Gildragon]

OK. spark notes is wrong.

Jonas and Gabriel are still in motion at the end of the book. delusion from Jonas memories would only be suggestible if they had experienced that before. It actually leaves room for the rest of the story to end well.

[Pelafina]

Originally Posted by baka ushi

The ending of The Giver is extremely ambiguous and highly controversial. It can be read in two ways: either Jonas and Gabriel have finally arrived at a populated section of Elsewhere

The Messenger [the third book] has a character that's been interpreted as Jonas.

So I don't believe he dies.

[Gildragon]

wait? I didn't know that the Giver was made into a series

[Ecstasy]

Originally Posted by Gildragon

OK. spark notes is wrong.

Jonas and Gabriel are still in motion at the end of the book. delusion from Jonas memories would only be suggestible if they had experienced that before. It actually leaves room for the rest of the story to end well.

Delusions from Jonas's /stored/ memories. The ones that he received. Doesn't mean he had to have experienced that before, he got the memories from events that happened before his time. The ending of The Giver alone can be interpreted either way, but looking more into it, Morningstar is right. The sequel hints that Jonas lives (I've never actually read it, but I was googling), not the original ending, however.

[Pelafina]

Originally Posted by Gildragon

wait? I didn't know that the Giver was made into a series

Not technically.

It's three separate but distantly related novels.

[Gildragon]

what I meant baka is that in order for a delusion to happen at the end of a book and to hav ehim freezing to death. he would have had to experienced that before. otherwise it would not be good writing style and also not follow lowry's own technique

[soramaru95]

i think is a pretty good book

[Pelafina]

Originally Posted by Gildragon

what I meant baka is that in order for a delusion to happen at the end of a book and to hav ehim freezing to death. he would have had to experienced that before.

And she said that he had it from someone else's memory.

That would constitute experience.

[Gildragon]

yeah but the memories were transferred to him. they weren't delusions. now those memories are his.